Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

Joan Crawford, with her four adopted children, is far different to the girl who first came to Hollywood The few figures in the headlines will never add up to the life that goes on deep in the heart of Hollywood REX HARRISON, now co-starring on Broadway in “Anne of the Thousand Days,” has had much to say about Hollywood. None of it good. Much of it bad. Last November, when he was playing in Philadelphia, a newspaper story announced it would be hard to find two people more bitter about Hollywood than Rex and Lilli Palmer. It quoted Rex as saying he hated the town, which was run by a splenetic old columnist, and never would make another picture there. This, I thought, ill became him. Had he left Hollywood with his colleagues’ plaudits ringing in his ears such a statement, although ungracious, would have had to be accepted as his honest opinion. But Rex Harrison, you will remember, left Hollywood following Carole Landis’s suicide. Press misinterpretations usually are corrected instantly. In this case, however, no correction was made for a long time. Rex proceeded to New York where he received the excellent notices his brilliant performance in “Anne of the ( Continued on page 70) The John Agars’ chances for happiness are greater because of >vhat Shirley learned in her early teens 50